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Celebrating next week THREE YEARS in the New York times Bestseller List, you find below parts of the dialogue between the shepherd boy and the Alchemist on the way to the pyramids. "Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked, when they had made camp that day. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure." "But my heart is agitated," the boy said. "It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her." "Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say." "My heart is a traitor," the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. "It doesn't want me to go on." "That makes sense. Naturally it's afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you've won....

The Web Celeb 25 Blogs have transformed fashion photography--witness the spectacular rise of Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist. Four years ago, street-fashion photographer and blogger Scott Schuman was a stay-at-home dad--walking his kids to and from school, indulging in strawberry margaritas in the early afternoon, taking pictures to post on his new fashion Web site, The Sartorialist . Now, he travels to Paris and Milan for fashion shows, sits on panel discussions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has even starred in an ad campaign ( the Gap , fall 2008; he wore a white oxford shirt). "I try not to think about it too much," he says of his burgeoning fame. "I realize that I have a really romantic life right now, but I try not to take myself too seriously. I try to have fun." Indeed. He then orders his third strawberry margarita, blended, no salt. (The awesome thing about his current job, he confides: "As long as I can keep my camera steady, I can have as m...